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The discussion page will be used to build a community of practice where people can post or respond to questions and make connections with others practicing or interested in adaptive management. | The discussion page will be used to build a community of practice where people can post or respond to questions and make connections with others practicing or interested in adaptive management. | ||
==Defining Adaptive Management== | ==Defining Adaptive Management== | ||
The concept of adaptive management has been widely debated and different definitions exist. This presents a challenge to practitioners who must reach a common understanding with partners, stakeholders, managers, scientists and decision makers. In order to bring some consistency to what the British Columbia Forest Service means by “adaptive management”, the following standard working definition was adopted: ''Adaptive management is a systematic process for continually improving management policies and practices by learning from the outcomes of operational programs'' (British Columbia, Ministry of Forests and Range). | The concept of adaptive management has been widely debated and different definitions exist. This presents a challenge to practitioners who must reach a common understanding with partners, stakeholders, managers, scientists and decision makers. In order to bring some consistency to what the British Columbia Forest Service means by “adaptive management”, the following standard working definition was adopted: ''Adaptive management is a systematic process for continually improving management policies and practices by learning from the outcomes of operational programs'' (British Columbia, Ministry of Forests and Range). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_management Wikipedia] | ||
The adaptive management approach assumes natural resource management policies and management actions are not static but adjusted based on the combination of new scientific and socio-economic information in order to improve management by learning from the ecosystems being affected. Often people think adaptive management simply means “trial and error”, in which management policies and practices evolve in response to past performance and changing priorities, but in fact this misses an essential element of the concept which is deliberate experimentation. | The adaptive management approach assumes natural resource management policies and management actions are not static but adjusted based on the combination of new scientific and socio-economic information in order to improve management by learning from the ecosystems being affected. Often people think adaptive management simply means “trial and error”, in which management policies and practices evolve in response to past performance and changing priorities, but in fact this misses an essential element of the concept which is deliberate experimentation. | ||
Although definitions of adaptive management vary by source, several key characteristics of the concept are universal and fundamental: | Although definitions of adaptive management vary by source, several key characteristics of the concept are universal and fundamental: | ||